sanguijuela
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#61,915
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
sanguijuela is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Hirudo medicinalis) Gusano anélido y hermafrodita ectoparásito que se alimenta chupando sangre de personas y animales. Vive en lugares húmedos y se adhiere a su huésped mediante a una ventosa. Mie... Pronounced [sãŋgiˈxwela].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sanguijuela |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [sãŋgiˈxwela] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #61,915 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sanguijuela is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sãŋgiˈxwela]. Corpus data places it at rank #61,915 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for sanguijuela in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is sanguijuela, spelled S-A-N-G-U-I-J-U-E-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Hirudo medicinalis) Gusano anélido y hermafrodita ectoparásito que se alimenta chupando sangre de personas y animales. Vive en lugares húmedos y se adhiere a su huésped mediante a una ventosa. Mientras succiona sangre segrega anticoagulantes, vasodilatadores y anestésicos, motivos por lo que desde la Antigüedad se le ha dado uso medicinal.
- 2(Hirudinea) Por extensión, nombre común de las cerca de 600 especies que componen la clase a la que pertenece la sanguijuela₁. Son animales hermafroditas que habitan toda clase de ambientes acuáticos y que en su mayoría son de hábitos depredadores antes que parásitos.
- 3Persona o entidad que se aprovecha de los demás.
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Frequency rank: #61,915 in Spanish
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